Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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PRESCOTT - No one in the Prescott School District is in denial. Times are tough. Earlier this year, the Junior Senior High School was listed as one of 50 schools in the state with academic performance problems. The district has a year to fix it. Meanwhile, Prescott has lost 11 students, or 5 percent of its student body, so far in 2010 - 2011. And late last month, district officials announced they'll need to cut two teaching staff positions and eight hours of non-teaching staff time due to lower...
Shelly Sue Jones A celebration of life for Shelly Sue Jones will be held at 2:00 p.m. Sunday, May 8, 2011 at the Lion's Club building located at the Waitsburg Fairgrounds.... Full story
May 4: Liya Senter, Tom Land, Harry Thompson, Anna Ray and Ashley Janovich. May 5: Jim Tuttle, Dian Mc- Quade, Pamela Parsons, Todd Wood, Rhiannon Chapman, Kin Hofer, Kelly Thomas Ward, Jim Crawford and Kathryn Fry. May 6: Scott and Ellie Johnson, Betty Mosley, Joan Kennedy, Barbara Danforth, Annette Bergevin, J.W. Stonecipher, Marcy Thompson, Theron Barbee, Jonathan Cosper and Kylie McConnell. May 7: Jake Kibler, Richard Ford, Herb Mettler, Brayden Wood, JoAn Fiala, Rose Rinell, Fred Knudsen, Patty Baker, Lydia Rose Roberts, Della Mae and... Full story
WALLA WALLA - Walla Walla County Commissioners have appointed Dr. Harvey Crowder, Public Health Administrator for the county, to serve as the interim Walla Walla County Emergency Management Director to oversee the operations of the department. The temporary appointment was made during the commissioners' regular meeting on May 2, 2011. Gay Ernst, who formerly held the position of director, resigned from that position effective April 29, 2011. Abbie VanDonge will continue in her role of assistant department director and other staff assignments... Full story
COLFAX-The WP track teams competed in a District 7 track meet last Tuesday in Colfax. The men added another first place victory to their season with a total score of 108 points. The women finished second behind the dominating Colfax team. Ronnie Hulce led the Cardinals with three first place finishes. She put in a stellar performance in the 300 meter hurdles, finishing with a time of 49.49. She set a new personal record and broke the existing school record which she herself had set last year as a sophomore. Hulce also hopped, skipped and...
RICHLAND - - Ba d weather has dampened the spirits of Touchet Valley high school golfers in the last few weeks. " It has been difficult for us to get any consistent practice," said Dayton/WP head golf coach Mike Mc- Ghan. "For example, we got snowed out two weeks ago." The Dayton and Waitsburg Prescott teams played at Columbia Point Golf Course in Richland last Tuesday but didn't have complete games. The 18-hole, par 72 course was tough for all five teams. Tri-Cities Prep boys took top scores... Full story
DAYTON-The WP Tigers swept the Dayton Bulldogs in a league double-header last Saturday in Dayton. But they weren't as effective against arch rival DeSales on Tuesday, losing 3-4 and 8-2 in their doubleheader with the Irish. Their league games done, the Tigers now await the outcome of other league games to see if they're in the running for the playoffs. More details and results of Tuesday's game will appear in next week's edition of the Times. This weekend, the Tigers came out in full force...
DAYTON- T h e Lady Tigers Tuesday spl i t their doubleheader against the Irish following a similar result against the Bulldogs this weekend. Those scores mean WP is now tied with Dayton for first in the league. The Tigers lost their first game against DeSales 3-5, but won game two 8-1. More details will be in the Times next week. WP and Dayton Bulldogs split a league double- header last Friday afternoon in Dayton. The Bulldogs took the first game in eight innings 7-6 while the Tigers took the...
5 May 5 - 14 Fiddler on the Roof- Walla Walla High School The Wal la Wal la High School's Performing Arts Auditorium has been transformed into a small village in Russia as the WA-Hi Drama department presents Fiddler on the Roof, whose cast includes Dayton's Cougar Henderson. Theater goers will be immersed in the family life of Anatevka, Tevye, a poor dairyman, as he tries to instill in his five daughters the traditions of his tight-knit Jewish community in the face of changing social mores and the growing anti-Semitism of Czarist Russia. Rich i...
Wanda Mae Young, 1211 S. Second, Dayton, Washington passed away April 26, 2011 at the Dayton General Hospital at the age of 94 years. At her request there will be no funeral service. Private inurnment in the Mountain View Cemetery in Walla Walla, Washington. Memorial contributions may be made to the Dayton Ambulance or NYSOE Cancer Fund through the Munselle- Rhodes Funeral Home, 902 S. Main, Milton-Freewater, OR 97862. Mrs. Young was a lifelong resident of Starbuck, Waitsburg and Dayton. Wanda graduated from high school in Waitsburg. She spent...
Charity Maxine ( Conover) Mercer, age 93, passed away on April 26, 2011 at Park Manor Rehabilitation Center in Walla Walla. Maxine was born in Waitsburg on September 7, 1917 to Forrest and Carrie (Clark) Conover. She attended Waitsburg High School, class of 1935 and graduated from Whitman College in 1939. She taught English and business classes at Ashland, Oregon, and Bickelton and Grandview, Washington. Maxine married Jim Rusk and they operated Rusk Turkey Farm until his death. She continued to be a successful business woman in the... Full story
A nyone who knows me knows I am a yoga freak, on my mat practicing each morning before coffee or hello. Yoga and stretching keeps me vital, limber and most at peace with everyone and everything around me. I have practiced this method of living for the better part of thirty years, in the garden through summer and on the living room floor in winter, there's just no stopping me. When I was asked to speak this year at the Green Festival in Seattle, May 21-22, I jumped at the chance. My lecture topic: "How we eat and think about food today," and my...
Ten Years Ago May 10, 2001 Glynn Davis was honored for his service to the Blue Mountain SnoMo Club at the club's annual meeting. Davis has served for two years as club president and worked with the U.S. Forest Service on many local issues. Howard Smith Jr. was honored as Trailmaster. Smith was honored for his dedication and continual influence with the club. The club finished its first year as a 4-H club, and it is anticipated to be published as an "official" 4-H choice this summer. Season ending honors go to Josh Stedman, president of the...
WALLA WALLA - When Duane Wollmuth travels to Anaheim, Calif., later this month, it won't be to get a break from Southeast Washington's cold and rainy spring. Wollmuth and two other members of a new partnership will go down there to sell businesses from around the country on a different weather feature prevalent in this corner of the state, or at least the industry that takes advantage of its energy: wind. Attending the American Wind Energy Association 2011 Wind Expo is one for the first...
COUNTY HIRES HEALTH DIRECTOR DAYTON - Martha Lanman of Lewiston is Columbia County's new public health administrator. Lanham, originally from Garfield County, began her job last month, following the firing of her predecessor, David Riggs, last fall. Lanman worked for the Whitman County Health Department, where she handled grant writing and billing. Previously, she owned her own retail computer store and in worked in Australia computer software industry for five years. Martha and her husband Bruce have five grown children living in Lewiston,...
Washington easi ly adopted medical marijuana by initiative in 1998, with 59 percent of the vote. That strong public support remains today. A recent poll found that 84 percent of Washington voters favor "allowing patients with terminal or debilitating conditions to possess and consume marijuana if their doctors recommend it." Unfortunately, the law is not working as the voters intended. This is why Senate Bill 5073 - currently under consideration in the Legislature - is so important and needs to... Full story
A n Associated Press story recently reported how the federal government would respond if Washington expands medical marijuana dispensaries: "The U.S. attorney for Eastern Washington has warned landlords they could face forfeiture of their properties if they rent to medical marijuana shops." The story noted that federal law prohibits marijuana use, quoting U.S. Attorney Michael Ormsby as saying, "We intend to use the full extent of our legal remedies to enforce the law." Following voter approval...
Dear Editor: I am prompted to write because of the Opinion column in the April 14 edition. It mentioned happening upon a bench in the park with a memorial inscription. Deana Land Anderson was my wife until October 11, 1991 when an auto accident in western New York state ended her life way before her time. We deposited her ashes in the Touchet River at Waitburg in 1992. She had been born in 1937 in Waitsburg on the living room couch of her parents' home on Preston Avenue and by a fortuitous chain of events, we ended up on the same bowling team...
I n the two decades we lived in the Seattle area, we made a lot friends. Some of them were Asian immigrants and one of those was Sary Math. Sary was born and raised in Cambodia, but he isn't ethnic Khmer like most Cambodians. He belongs a to fairly large ethnic minority known as Cham, a people who hail from the ancient kingdom of Champa that once stretched from the coast of Vietnam well into Thailand. At some point during that Indochina's equivalent of the Middle Ages, many Cham converted to Islam and settled along the Mekong River, where they... Full story
WAITSBURG - It isn't every night that the lights are on at two in the morning in Joan Helm's home on Fourth Street. Or that her table is laden with four different kinds of scones, eggs dishes and tea. Or that champagne (well, actually, sparkling cider) is chilling in the fridge for a special toast. But it isn't every night that Helm invites her friends to get up and join her to watch a special event half way around the world: the royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton. Early Friday...
WAITSBURG - Three months after the old food bank operation moved from a cramped basement into a street-level store front, community members in need are finding a lot more than nutrition at the new Waitsburg Resource Center. "We're bigger than the food bank," said Rev. Mike Ferrians of the Waitsburg Christian Church who serves as the center's treasurer. "It's everything we envisioned it to be." The center, with its cleaner, more accessible and more central location in the America West Bank building on Preston Ave., is more hospitable for...
